Google has launched an answer to facebook like with Google +. I have not yet started seeing the effects but definitely you I am sure over a period of time, it will effect my search results.

Here are way to add google + on your site.

1. Go to your webmaster console.  i am sure if you would like to add google+ on your site you would have a  account with google webmaster.

2. Go to +1 Metrics –> search impact on your left and click on it.

3. You would find see a heading Add +1 button on right. Click on that and it will lead you to a page which code generated like

<!– Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag –>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js”></script>

<!– Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render –>
<g:plusone></g:plusone>

4. Add that code on your site. If for some reasons this does not work as it dies work with jsp and jsf sites, add this
<!– Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag –>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js”></script>
<div data-size=”standard” data-count=”true” align=”left”></div>

Preview the page and + 1 button has been added to your  site

For those of you who are looking to make a carrer in cloud computing, here is the next step offered by google.

Google is offering the app certification program.

As on data around 3 million business are using google apps and we are one of them and it has definitely been a life saver.

From Google’s blog

Google App Certification recognizes IT professionals for demonstrated abilities to sell, deploy, develop, and support Google Apps. Available today globally, is the first of these certifications, the Google Apps Certified Deployment Specialist, which certifies IT professionals who have demonstrated the fundamental knowledge and skills required to migrate to, configure, and deploy google Apps

Contracts for Java is a new open source tool from Google that makes it easier to implement contracts in Java. According to Google’s announcement, this new tool is based on Modern Jass by Johannes Rieken and inspired by the programming language Eiffel. It was created by two Google engineers – David Morgan, Andreas Leitner – using their 20% time, and was expanded as part of an internship by Nhat Minh Le.

These guys are trying to solve one basic fundamental problem in software programming i.e How do you enforce the contract of any class or method ?

Contracts for Java enables you to write annotate your code with contracts in the form of preconditions, postconditions and invariants.

These contract annotations are

• easy to write and read,
• and checked at runtime.

Annotating code with contracts helps you:

• design,
• document,
• test, and
• debug Read more…

If any time you had faced an attack on your site My site has been attacked , make sure you check out your website with google safe browsing tool and also verify with Norton.

Google Safe Browsing tool

http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=www.skill-guru.com. You would see something like this

For verifying with Norton you will have register and place a html document in root folder.

http://safeweb.norton.com/report/show?url=http://www.skill-guru.com/

site Attacked page

If you see a page like this when you are trying to open up your site or some other site, it basically means that there has been some malicious contents hosted on your site or this network. Because of this malicious content , the site has been identified as attack site.

This is a pretty serious problem and if a corporate website is attacked , it could affect all the sub sites associated with this domain, causing overall outage.

In some cases, third parties can add malicious code to legitimate sites, which would cause us to show the warning message.

It could also be that the hosting provider’s servers have been affected which is affecting your site as well.

How to fix this problem ?

1. Set up a Google Webmaster Tools account to get the details of malicious content.

2. Check the directories and files of your server and look for any changed files or new content which look suspicious

3. Change your FTP  password.

4. After you have done all verification and clean up , inform google about same
How to remove the “This site may harm your computer”
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How to prevent your site from getting hacked. How to repair a damaged site. Website security precautions
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Nowadays Searching right data withing an organization is becoming very important and Google – The most popular search engine provider, is also providing this within an organization. GSA – Google Search Appliance is a product from Google , which provides fast and relevant search within intranet.
GSA like Google site, would croll all the listed intranet sites, and some known data sources like content management systems, user portals and indexes all the documents for search. It also exposes an Google search interface to end users. One can also customize the front end according to their company needs. GSA can also be configured to pull some real time data using special applications called ‘OneBoxes’ which fetch real time data during the search.
According to google :

Google OneBox for Enterprise brings the power and simplicity of search as a “fast front door” to information into the enterprise network. OneBox Modules provide secure real time access to information on the Google Search Appliance or external data sources. On Google.com, OneBox modules display specially formatted information like movies, weather and airport information. Imagine accessing critical information like your business calendar, your business contacts or even sales reports from an easy to use search interface.

Altogether Google is showing how a simple search could add value within an enterprise also.

Google is obsessed with speed and it had indicated in past that it will penalize sites in rankings which are slow . Of course people love google because of the speed with which it can give accurate search results. Slow sites will do more harm to google.

Now google has released a module for apache http server called mod_pagespeed to reduce the response time and would make your site faster.

From google’s official blog

So today, we’re introducing a module for the Apache HTTP Server called mod_pagespeed to perform many speed optimizations automatically. We’re starting with more than 15 on-the-fly optimizations that address various aspects of web performance, including optimizing caching, minimizing client-server round trips and minimizing payload size. We’ve seen mod_pagespeed reduce page load times by up to 50% (an average across a rough sample of sites we tried) — in other words, essentially speeding up websites by about 2x, and sometimes even faster.

Google is testing out with GoDaddy as of now to see the performance improvement . We will keep you posted on how individual users working with other service providers or those who have site hosted on VPS , can add this module to their web server.

Make your site faster with google

I am trying to connect to mail.google.com through firefox and see this

Is anyone else seeing this ?